James Earl Jones brings Frederick Douglass’s searing 1852 oration “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” to life—forcing a reflection on liberty, hypocrisy, and the ongoing struggle for justice. A must-watch for #FourthOfJuly and everyday.
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What can small data tell us about the quotidian impacts of limited scale representation in the aftermath of trauma and erasure? Catch me next month as I present and discuss “Beyond A Haunting,” a project centering histories of indenture and belonging.
Can I even conjure a self, a re-presentation of myself without a reference to my ancestors? “These people are my access to me; they are my entrance into my own interior life” (Morrison, “The Site of Memory” 95) and as I am, they are.
Nadejda Jahi Webb + Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez: “We bear witness to the geopolitical shifts that have left the worlds most vulnerable populations exposed to the disabling forces of war, white supremacy, genocide, enclosure, famine, disappearance, and destierro.”
Zophia Edwards, Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago (Duke University Press, 2025)
Another excellent book indexed by Southwest Humanities is Zophia Edwards's Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago (Duke…
Cover of Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago by Zophia Edwards. The cover has a dark blue background and a painting in the center. The painting depicts numerous, overlapping human figures in motion, in an abstract, cubist-like style. The painting has a bold colour palette, featuring greens, yellows, reds, and blues, with the blue tones being the most prominent.
In "Fueling Development," Zophia Edwards traces Trinidad and Tobago’s democratic and redistributive development success to a specific form of Black radical working-class mobilization she calls “liberation unionism.” Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/94DOWp1
Check it out. Frederik built a static site/minicomp digital collection using Pelican. For the Python crew.
Agreed.
Not sure, we'll succeed in setting up all 4 rituals, but we already got (b) and (c) in the cue, and have done one of (d). ¡Si se puede!
In our dept we're reviving the art of sharing dissertations in progress as a collective. We're aiming for 4 rituals to mark and celebrate a grad's progress together: a) A collective bibliography for their orals/prospectus; b) A chapter slam; c) An open defense; d) An invite back after they leave.
Ooo, I just realized that apple's embedding viz package can be used for even tabular data. The more you know!
Ecosystem Notes: What's the Plan? Toni Cade Bambara Weekend Events for College Students, Spring Research Celebration Reveal, and more open.substack.com/pub/lifexcod...
Save the Date! Who Owns Black Data III: The Fight for Black Futures
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On April 10th &11th, join us for "What's The Plan?" // Toni Cade Bambara in Praxis Weekend: Lessons in Care, Sisterhood, and Cultural Work
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Find our latest Spotlight Interview with Awa Diagne Lô on our Substack! The polyglot co-founder of the Translation Lab in the DSL encourages us to "be aware of the responsibility to speak, or to stay silent, and how powerful that choice is."
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A new Substack post from Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil reflects on how powerful mentorship and recognizing the breadth of labor is in creating community-based digital humanities projects.
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The “Black Kinship and AI” panel features Kim Gallon (Brown University), Christopher Dancy (Penn State University), Nadejda Webb (Johns Hopkins University) and Jonathan Baynes (EINDEVR).
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Join us on May 14th to hear from a lineup of dynamic presenters on critical questions on Black Kinship and AI!
Dive into the Ecosystem and meet Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil! K4BL’s Digital Curation Fellow tells us about scholarly confidence, her connections to the American Southwest, and why she starts all of her conference presentations with Langston Hughes. open.substack.com/pub/lifexcod...
The “Ancestry, Genealogy, and DNA” panel features Melanie Maldonado (PROPA, Puerto Rico Sites of Slavery), Vincent Brown (Harvard University), Matthew Smith (UCL Legacies of British Slavery), and Richard Cellini (Harvard University).
Join us at the Who Owns Black Data? Conference on May 14th to hear from a lineup of dynamic experts on Black ancestry, memorialization, and descendant engagement! 🖤
Register here: wobd.blackbeyonddata.org
Panel 3: Black Kinship & AI featuring Jonathan Baynes, Christopher Dancy, Kim Gallon, and Nadejda Webb
Keynote Dialogue featuring Tamara Lanier, Yeshimabeit Milner, Alondra Nelson, and Marisa Parham (intro by Kim Gallon)
We hope to see you there on May 13-14! wobd.blackbeyonddata.org/yale/
Panel 1: Archival Reparations featuring Cheryl Beredo, Connie Bell, Dorothy Berry, and Kathe Hambrick (moderator: Marlene Daut)
Panel 2: Ancestry, Genealogy, and DNA featuring Vincent Brown, Richard Cellini, Melanie Maldonado, and Matthew Smith (moderator: Alexandre White)
The WOBD conference is so excited to welcome an amazing roster of speakers for three panels + a keynote dialogue. Check out this list of powerhouse thinkers and doers shaping the conversation on Black data:
